Abstract

Surveillance of sexual risk behaviour within the STI surveillance system

Behavioural surveillance should be integrated in national STI and HIV surveillance systems to improve insight in the association between HIV and STI trends and sexual behavioural changes. Experts on sexual behavioural surveillance in the Netherlands discussed the selection of key indicators for the monitoring of sexual behaviour within the current STI and HIV surveillance. In a previous article in TSG, the development of the set key behavioural indicators was described. Here, we present the results from a pilot carried out in 2006 in which the five behavioural indicators were included in the national network of STI centres to study the association between behaviour and STI and HIV diagnoses.